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After four health care workers with Ebola were flown from West Africa to the United States for care last month, the first case in the U.S. has been diagnosed in a Liberian man visiting Dallas. While it's extremely unlikely this case will lead to a widespread outbreak, it causes concern amid reports the patient may have had direct or indirect contact with some 100 people before he was placed in isolation. Fortunately, all indications are that Ebola is not especially contagious, but this case is a sirens-wailing warning to the public and our medical community. In spite of millions of dollars allocated and legions of physicians, epidemiologists and nurses working to prevent contagion, no...

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After four health care workers with Ebola were flown from West Africa to the United States for care last month, the first case in the U.S. has been diagnosed in a Liberian man visiting Dallas. While it's extremely unlikely this case will lead to a...

As a part of its parenting series, HGNA is honored to host Coach Joe Ehrmann on Sunday, November 2 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Clarence Johnson Auditorium at DG North High School for this one-time event while he is in town working with the Chicago Bears! ...

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InsureMyTrip, a travel insurance comparison website based in Warwick, R.I., said Monday it will offer a Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. program to better protect travelers whose plans change because of the deadly Ebola outbreak.
Effective immediately...

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A U.S. aid worker who was infected with the deadly Ebola virus while working in West Africa will be flown to the United States to be treated in a high-security ward at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, hospital officials said on Thursday.
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The United States is beefing up security at its embassy in Baghdad and will evacuate some workers out of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.
The move comes as Sunni insurgents seized a mainly ethnic Turkmen...

Somali-linked Islamists have killed at least 50 people in a Kenyan coastal town, executing men in front of their families and killing others who had gathered to watch World Cup soccer on television.
The al Shabaab group said on Monday that its...

There is a long list of things that the newly opened National September 11 Memorial Museum doesn't accomplish, or doesn't fully accomplish.
It doesn't deal much with the messy, ongoing aftermath of the attacks of that day. It doesn't present the...

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President Barack Obama is expected to detail on Tuesday a plan to boost his country's involvement in mitigating the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The plan would involve a greater involvement of the U.S....

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Bullied No More: A Conversation with Jarrett Payton and Camille Paddock will kick off a series of programs about bullying sponsored by Maine Township's MaineStay Youth & Family Services on Wednesday, March 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Maine West High...